Check out this short video clip showcasing a newly branded Logistics Plus (LP) trailer. The trailer is being pulled by a National Truckload (NTL) division tractor, of course. LP is the parent company to NTL (stay tuned, we have some new photographs on the way soon too).
Thank you to the folks at Wonolo (stands for Work. Now. Locally.) for including Logistics Plus in their “Best Ways to Boost Warehouse Productivity” blog post. The most productive warehouses have systems and processes that enable their operations to run like well-oiled machines. But with so many moving parts, fluctuations in demand, increased customer expectations, and other shifting dynamics, boosting productivity in the warehouse setting is often easier said than done. To gain some insight into the productivity-boosting tactics and strategies today’s warehouse operators find most effective, the folks at Wonolo reached out to a panel of warehouse professionals, including LP’s own Patrick Randolph, to ask the question: “What’s the single best way for warehouses to improve productivity?” You can read Patrick’s reply below; or read the full online article here: https://www.wonolo.com/blog/improve-warehouse-productivity/
(Check out this online article from LiveMint featuring Sundreysh Sarup, Managing Director for Logistics Plus India)
Like most people, Sundreysh Sarup started running to get fitter and lose weight. He began walking and slow jogging in 2012, and gave himself a year to train for his first half marathon in Delhi in 2013. Since then, he has run about 10 half marathons, as well as a few 10K, runs. Last year, in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon (ADHM), he achieved his personal best time of 2 hours, 16 minutes for a 21.1km run. The managing director of Logistics Plus Pvt. Ltd is often joined in his runs by his 11-year-old son; they both look on it as father-son bonding time.
Read the online story here:
The Logistics Plus India division is an exclusive member of the U.S.-India Aviation Cooperation Program (ACP). Yesterday Sundreysh Sarup, Managing Director for LP India, attended an evening event that included Hon Minister of State Mr. Jayant Sinha, and senior officials from the U.S. Embassy. Sundreysh was joined by fellow LP India colleagues Ankush Rajurkar and Suraj Joshi for the evening. Here is a group photograph from the event:
The Aerospace and Aviation industry is a key industry segment served by Logistics Plus divisions all around the world.
The U.S-India Aviation Cooperation Program (ACP) is a unique bilateral public-private partnership launched in 2007 between the U.S. Trade Development Agency (USTDA), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and U.S. aviation companies, has been established to provide a forum for unified communication between the Government of India and U.S. public and private sector entities in India. Under this public-private partnership, USTDA has sponsored a conference in New Delhi, a multi-phase Air Traffic Management Training Program, and technical workshops on certification of India’s satellite navigation system, GAGAN, and Air Traffic Flow Management practices. New projects include a Helicopter Aviation Safety and Aviation Standards and Processes technical assistance program for the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
(Editorial piece published December 7, 2017)
Bold Union Station gamble pays off for Erie
Erie Times News Editorial Board
Erie Insurance, UPMC Hamot, Saint Vincent Hospital and Scott Enterprises have put in motion downtown Erie development plans worth hundreds of millions of dollars, all of it progress to be celebrated.
Not be lost amid that near embarrassment of riches is the foresight and courage of earlier, stalwart pioneers of downtown Erie’s recovery like Logistics Plus founder and CEO Jim Berlin.
As detailed by Erie Times-News reporter Jim Martin, Erie-based Logistics Plus is celebrating the 90th anniversary of the 1927 dedication of Union Station, an Erie landmark and architectural gem that owes its survival in large part to Berlin’s vision.
Berlin in 2003 took a gamble on the once-crumbling property facing Griswold Park at a time when little portended good for that part of downtown.
Amtrak and the YWCA then occupied the historic structure, recognized as the nation’s first art deco rail station. Porter’s Restaurant & Tap Room and Sabella’s operated in an area that had been refurbished.
The rest of the 100,000-square-foot building, though? “A dump,” Berlin told Martin. Animals had taken up residence, as had homeless people.
Berlin saw all that and wanted to buy the rail station anyway and make it home to his own transit-oriented company, which provides transportation and logistics services around the world.
Logistics Plus at that time employed about 30 people in Erie. Its Union Station headquarters now houses 115 workers.
Erie’s original microbrewery, The Brewerie at Union Station, fills the former rail station’s rotunda. Vitality has flowed into the neighborhood as well.
Griswold Park has been spruced up and graced with a new fountain and plantings. Another grand building, the former Griswold Plaza post office that sits across from Union Station, was purchased by Erie lawyer Andrew Sisinni in 2010 and houses tenants.
The Erie Redevelopment Authority’s ambitious plans for the Union Square area, bound by West 12th and West 14th streets, between State and Peach streets, faltered. But market-rate development there may yet be realized by Erie developer Rick Griffith.
Development of Union Station is ongoing. Berlin and Gov. Tom Wolf announced in August that the company plans to expand into a never-used part of Union Station and add 44 new jobs in the process.
Soon, the renewal emanating from Union Station might be answered with new development in the nearby 12th Street corridor, where Erie businessman Peter Zaphiris recently purchased a number of parcels that he said he aims to develop “for the betterment of Erie.”
Berlin’s decision to invest in Union Station exhibited both respect and dedication to Erie’s proud past and abiding faith in its future. And it’s become an anchor of its present.
It figures as an enduring lead for others to follow.